Stephen Lansdown net worth: Stephen Lansdown is an English businessman who has a net worth of $1.5 billion. As of March 2013, Stephen Lansdown is said to be one of the world's richest people as one of the major shareholders and co-founder of the UK's financial services firm Hargreaves Lansdown. It was back in 1981, when he and fellow billionaire Peter Hargreaves set up the company literally out of a bedroom in Bristol. Some twenty years later their trading business became reportedly worth around ?280 million and as the company's stock price has hiked up over the last year a 20% of the firm is now worth around $1.3 billion. What's more, Landsown is also the majority owner of soccer team Bristol City FC and holds a share in Bristol Rugby. Married with two children, he recently moved to island country of Guernsey with his family, who often spend time in their holiday home in the South of France.

Stephen Philip Lansdown (born 30 August 1952) is co-founder with Peter Hargreaves of UK financial services firm Hargreaves Lansdown and majority shareholder of Bristol City Football Club.Educated at Thornbury Grammar School in Gloucestershire and trained as an accountant, Stephen Lansdown started Hargreaves Lansdown trading from a bedroom in 1981 and in 2009 was reportedly worth around A?280 million.In April 2009, he sold a stake of 4.7% in Hargreaves Lansdown for a sum of A?47.2million, which he put towards the cost of building Bristol City's new football stadium. He was reported in September 2012 to have announced his intention to quit Hargreaves Lansdown in November 2012. Lansdown has a holiday home in the South of France.The family recently moved to Guernsey.According to Hargeaves Landsdown's notifiable director deals, on 7-10-2010 Stephen P Lansdown, Non-Executive Director, sold (at 429.00p) 13,560,843.00 shares at a value of A?58,176,016.47.He is married with two children.

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Owner Stephen Lansdown has said he can leave - but only if a £10m offer lands. And boss Lee Johnson doesn’t expect Birmingham to stump up that sort of cash. “The owner has come out and said what he will accept,” Johnson told Sky Sports News.

However, every head of recruitment from Canterbury to Cardiff and Toulon to Twickenham also had Piutau’s agent’s number on speed-dial, until we eventually discovered that the seemingly bottomless pockets of Bristol owner Stephen Lansdown had clinched ...

Bristol were relegated from the English Premiership last season but have ambitions - bankrolled by billionaire owner Stephen Lansdown - to become one of the top clubs in Europe. Former Blues coach Pat Lam is Bristol's new director of rugby.

But, bankrolled by British billionaire Stephen Lansdown, Bristol have a long-term plan to re-emerge as the strongest club in Europe and will welcome 15 Test All Black Steven Luatua for the 2017-18 season on a reported $1.07 million per year deal as part of ...

The Piatau deal however last night described by Pat Lam, Bristol’s new director of rugby, “one of the biggest coups in the club’s history” and underscores the south west club’s ambitions – bankrolled by billionaire owner Stephen Lansdown - to ...